This is a list of drawings published by the 26 museums and collections which have participated in the project to microfilm technical drawings of musical instruments, organised by Hague Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands, with the co-operation of CIMCIM. This list, prepared by Dr Rob van Acht of the Hague Gemeentemuseum, includes the drawings now available on microfiche. The drawings are all also available in their original format directly from the participating museums, many of which also have further drawings on sale. ...

"The music publisher Universal Edition, which was founded in 1901 in Vienna as a publisher of classic instructional literature, developed rapidly within a few short years following its establishment into a future-oriented publishing house serving many of contemporary musical life's most creative talents.
Today, Universal Edition's catalogue encompasses over 30,000 items and is inseparably linked with the great composers and musical developments of the 20th and 21st centuries."
Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Maintained by Bradley Lehman, bpl@umich.edu
This is a group of web sites about harpsichords, clavichords, and similar stringed keyboard instruments before the modern piano. Member sites may be about the instruments, players, builders, repertoire, recordings, etc.
Participation and listing are free of charge; any relevant site approved by the maintainer is welcome in the ring.
Why join? Because it gives better exposure to your web site!

Welcome to the Mutopia Project ... a place where music is free for everyone! Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music.

Broadly speaking, copyright o­n a creative work expires 70 years after the creator's death. This means that the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and many other composers are in the public domain - in principle, they may be copied and performed without restriction.

However, you may not normally copy or perform a sheet music edition which you can buy, because an editor also has a copyright o­n the edition, and an arranger may have, too. " ...

" The Werner Icking Music Archive contains music-related stuff. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy the WWW-presentation of this music archive. The icon image points at images, the icon info at short information, and the icon PDF at a PDF-file. (To view a PDF file you must Download Acrobat Reader .) This is the definitive archive of software related to MusiXTeX, a music typesetting system based on TeX. You must have TeX installed before you can use any of this. To learn about TeX, try a google search on "TeX" and "Getting started" to see what's required. "

"Welcome to the International Music Score Library Project! IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. You can read the full list of goals that IMSLP will try to achieve.

IMSLP also encourages the exchange of musical ideas, both in the form of musical works, and in the analysis of existing ones. " This site has been closed due to copyright issues. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"La Trobe University closed its Music Department at the end of 1999. This site has not been updated since February 2004. A new and updated version of the Medieval Music Database is currently under construction and should be available early in 2008: in the meantime we welcome your comments, corrections and additions.

The main features of the new version are a much expanded repertoire of works in addition to the melodic incipits of liturgical works. Four complete manuscripts, a gradual and three antiphonals, have been added. Browse by Liturgical Feast is entirely new. This displays the melodic incipit of each liturgical chant for each feast, analyses related melodies and displays colour images of source manuscripts. The Browse by Composers, by Genre and by Manuscripts remain the same as they were is the earlier versions. " ...

"Founded by Boston-area recorder teacher Sheila Beardslee in 1995, CONCORDIA CONSORT is the performance ensemble representing Recorders/Early Music Metrowest, the metroWest’s participatory early music program. For over a decade, Concordia has contributed period music for over 200 services at churches throughout New England. Concordia has been heard in live broadcast on for WCRB, WHRB and WGBH Radio and has performed in concerts historic King’s Chapel in downtown Boston, for the Concord Museum, at Middlesex Community College, MIT Chapel, Williams College and other venues. " ...

"This site contains an anthology of over 500 files of Early Music in all-digital quality. Beyond music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque period, you will find here a few miscellaneous music files.

We created these files with the music programm Harmony Assistant which is both a score editor and a digital synthesizer.

In order to play the music files, you'll need to download & install the freeware plug-in. The plug-in enables your computer to display and play the music files directly from your web browser. If it is a vocal score, your computer will sing the lyrics in multiple languages and voices.

" "What's this thing, Polish Early Music? Never heard of it!"
We would be not surprised if you didn't. No offence meant: it is obscure. Here you can listen to some samples of Polish EM and learn a bit about our composers. And if you liked the site and the music, come again or drop us a note. We will be more than happy to help you within the limits of our knowledge and resources. " ...

"Welcome to EarlyGuitar.net! This page contains transcriptions for classical guitar (solo and duet) of a variety of renaissance and baroque music. The sheet music is available in pdf format, and midi files are available too. Enjoy!

All transcriptions by Dana Hawkes DiAnda unless otherwise noted. Please do not use any of the transcriptions commercially without my permission." ...

"Welcome to the CMME Project, a scholarly initiative to offer free online access to new, high-quality early music scores produced by today's leading experts. Based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, the project represents a collaborative development effort of specialists in musicology, information science, and music retrieval. The major purpose of the enterprise is to produce and maintain an online corpus of electronic editions, in addition to software tools making them accessible to students, scholars, performers, and interested amateurs. Here, the brilliant polyphonic styles known to the modern world through the works of such masters as Dufay, Josquin, Machaut, Palestrina, and Tallis can come to life again in the central medium of the 21st century. " ...

"Artemisia Editions was created by Candace Smith and Bruce Dickey to complement the work of the Italian ensemble Cappella Artemisia, a group of women dedicated to performing music from Italian convents of the 16th and 17th centuries. Extensive research has unearthed a startling amount of music either written by or dedicated to these cloistered nuns — music whose quality reflects the remarkably high standards of the original performances as described in the chronicles of numerous historians and travelers in Italy. " See website for more information. (ed.)

"Alamire Music Publishers concentrates on educational books in Dutch, facsimiles of musical manuscripts and scholarly works for the international market. Our collection of facsimiles of Renaissance and Baroque prints, is discontinued and liquidated at special discount prices." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"Primavera Music is a small company founded and jointly owned by the members of the ensemble OPUS 4. Primavera Music produces CDs, edits and publishes music, imports strings for viola da gamba and hand-made thumb-rests by Ton Kooiman for clarinets or large recorders. We also do layout, design and English/Danish translations for CD booklets. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)